Date

Multiple Resources Available

  1. Online Database Available
    Arctic Science and Technology Information System (ASTIS)

  2. Data Product Available
    IceBridge Sea Ice Freeboard, Snow Depth, and Thickness
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration

  3. Part II Now Available
    Key Findings from International Polar Year 2007-2008
    Fisheries and Oceans Canada

  4. IASC Bulletin 2012 Available
    International Arctic Science Committee

  5. March 2012 Issue of the Journal ARCTIC Available
    Volume 65, Number 1
    Journal of the Arctic Institute of North America (AINA)

  1. Online Database Available
    Arctic Science and Technology Information System (ASTIS)

Canada's northern database, the Arctic Science and Technology
Information System (ASTIS), now describes 76,000 publications and
research projects. The database is available at:
http://www.aina.ucalgary.ca/astis.

ASTIS includes all subjects and covers the Yukon, the Northwest
Territories, Nunavut, the northern parts of seven provinces and Canada's
arctic waters. The publications cited in the database include both
peer-reviewed and grey literature. Major new additions to the database
during the past year include 1000 Canadian IPY 2007-2008 publications,
700 ArcticNet publications, 200 Northern Contaminants Program
publications and 100 publications from the National Energy Board's
Arctic Offshore Drilling Review.

There are now 20,000 ASTIS records that link to full-text PDF files of
publications. In order to focus resources on important aspects of
northern Canada, fifteen subsets of the main ASTIS database are
available as separate databases from their own websites.

For further information, or to search the database, please go to:
http://www.aina.ucalgary.ca/astis

For questions, please contact:
Ross Goodwin
Email: rgoodwin [at] ucalgary.ca

  1. Data Product Available
    IceBridge Sea Ice Freeboard, Snow Depth, and Thickness
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announces the
availability of a new snow depth and sea ice thickness product along
IceBridge flights over the Arctic Ocean. The dataset will be available
at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) website:
http://nsidc.org/data/idcsi2.html or http://nsidc.org/icebridge/portal/.

The product contains several geophysical parameters derived from laser
altimeter, snow radar, and digital aerial photography measurements. User
feedback is invited before Monday, 30 April 2012, and a second version
of the dataset is planned for release in 2012. The IceBridge Project
Science Office at Goddard and the IceBridge Sea Ice Science Team will
jointly review the community comments and develop version two of the
product, which will include additional parameters.

Further information about IceBridge is available at:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/icebridge/mission/index.html.

To access the dataset, please go to:
http://nsidc.org/data/idcsi2.html
http://nsidc.org/icebridge/portal

Please send comments to:
Michael Studinger
Email: michael.studinger [at] nasa.gov

Nathan Kurtz
Email: nathan.t.kurtz [at] nasa.gov

  1. Part 2 Now Available
    Key Findings from International Polar Year 2007-2008
    Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Part 2 of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada key findings
from the International Polar Year 2007-2008, "Bringing Science to Policy
and Programs" is now available. It can be accessed online, at:
http://tinyurl.com/IPY-KeyFindings-Part2.

This report is a preliminary exploration of how scientific results
emerging from the IPY projects led by Fisheries and Oceans Canada are
relevant to the department's mandate, its programs, and its policies.
Due to the nature of research, results for many projects are just
starting to emerge, with the bulk yet to be revealed. Nevertheless,
specific contributions are already supporting key departmental policies
and program management responsibilities, including: Adaptation to
Climate Change, Integrated Fisheries Resource Management, Habitat
Management, Integrated Ocean Management, Ocean Forecasting, and
International Affairs. Further, this report highlights emerging issues
for the consideration of the Department in the development of future
policies and priorities.

For further information, please contact:
Jill Watkins
Email: jill.watkins [at] dfo-mpo.gc.ca

  1. IASC Bulletin 2012 Available
    International Arctic Science Committee

Each year the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) reports on
its activities and highlights international arctic science initiatives
in its Bulletin. The 2012 Bulletin is now available for download on the
IASC website: http://www.iasc.info/index.php/home/service/media/print.

Printed versions will be available at the 2012 'From Knowledge to
Action' conference in Montreal, Canada. Attendees can visit the IASC
booth and pick up a copy. IASC partners, Council, and Working Group
members will receive their copies either by regular mail or at the
Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) meetings in Montreal.

For a digital copy, please use the following link:
http://www.iasc.info/index.php/home/service/media/print

  1. March 2012 Issue of the Journal ARCTIC Available
    Volume 65, Number 1
    Journal of the Arctic Institute of North America (AINA)

The Arctic Institute of North America (AINA) announces publication of
the March 2012 issue of the journal ARCTIC, Volume 65, Number 1. A
non-profit membership organization and multidisciplinary research
institute of the University of Calgary, AINA's mandate is to advance the
study of the North American and circumpolar Arctic through the natural
and social sciences, as well as the arts and humanities; and to acquire,
preserve, and disseminate information on physical, environmental, and
social conditions in the North. Created as a binational corporation in
1945, the Institute's United States Corporation is housed at the
University of Alaska Fairbanks.

For information on becoming an AINA member and receiving the journal,
please visit the Institute's website at: http://www.arctic.ucalgary.ca/.
Members have the options of receiving ARCTIC in print, online, or both
in print and online.

The following papers appear in the March 2012 issue of ARCTIC:

- Balsam Poplar (Populus balsamifera; Salicaceae) Beyond the Tree
Line in the Western Canadian Mainland Arctic (Northwest
Territories), by Jeffery M. Saarela, Lynn J. Gillespie, Laurie L.
Consaul, and Roger D. Bull
- Winter Movements of Bowhead Whales (Balaena mysticetus) in the
Bering Sea by John J. Citta, Lori T. Quakenbush, John C. George,
Robert J. Small, Mads Peter Heide-Jorgensen, Harry Brower, Billy
Adams, and Lewis Brower
- Fall Migration of Ringed Seals (Phoca hispida) through the
Beaufort and Chukchi Seas, 2001-02, by Lois A. Harwood, Thomas G.
Smith, and James C. Auld
- Filamentous Soil Fungi from Ny-Alesund, Spitsbergen, and Screening
for Extracellular Enzymes, by Shiv M. Singh, Sanjay K. Singh, Lal S.
Yadav, Paras N. Singh, and Rasik Ravindra
- Bathymetry and Sediment Geochemistry of Lake Hazen (Quttinirpaaq
National Park, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut by G. Kock, D. Muir, F.
Yang, X. Wang, C. Talbot, N. Gantner, and D. Moser
- Stock Characteristics of Humpback Whitefish and Least Cisco in the
Chatanika River, Alaska, by Trent M. Sutton and Lorena E. Edenfield
- Lost Highway Not Forgotten: Satellite Tracking of a Bowhead Whale
(Balaena mysticetus) from the Critically Endangered Spitsbergen
Stock, by Christian Lydersen, Carla Freitas, Oystein Wiig, Lutz
Bachmann, Mads Peter Heide-Jorgensen, Rene Swift, and Kit M. Kovacs
- Why Do They Need the Arctic? The First Partition of the Sea by
Wojciech Janicki
- New Longevity Record for Ivory Gulls (Pagophila eburnea) and
Evidence of Natal Philopatry by M.L. Mallory, K.A. Allard, B.M.
Braune, H.G. Gilchrist, and V.G. Thomas

The March 2012 issue also contains five book reviews and obituaries for
Steven Solomon (1950-2011), written by Don Forbes; and Martin Alexander
Bergmann (1956-2011), written by Ed Struzik. The InfoNorth essay
(written by J.F. Provencher, N. Gantner, J. Schmale, H. Swanson and J.L.
Baeseman) describes a workshop held in Copenhagen in May 2011, which
brought together early career and established researchers to discuss how
early career researchers could be meaningfully integrated into polar
organizations such as the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme.

For information on becoming an AINA member and receiving the journal,
please visit the Institute's website at: http://www.arctic.ucalgary.ca/.

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